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A Centennial Celebration
2021 marks a critically important year in the history of Churches of Christ. 2021 marks 100 years since Elmer Leon (“E.L.”) Jorgenson of Louisville, KY published the very first edition of Great Songs of the Church. To say that this… Continue reading
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Jesus Loves…YOU
It will not surprise regular readers of this irregular blog to hear me write “what we sing forms who we are.” It’s been that way as long as there have been humans singing…and heck, even animals, and nature, and heaven… Continue reading
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I DON’T KNOW…
I DON’T KNOW.We don’t like these words. We don’t like saying these words. We don’t like not knowing. But these three words fill my mind as I try to process this last week’s events, the entirety of the COVID-19 virus… Continue reading
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“Let Party Names No More…”
This hymn by Benjamin Beddome, “Let Party Names No More…” was written around 1769. Rice Haggard was among the first to include it in his Christian Hymns hymnal of 1815, one of the earliest from the Stone-Campbell-Scott, etc., Restoration Movement.It’s… Continue reading
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Singing, COVID-19, and Church…
So, some stream of consciousness thoughts that have been percolating for some time now. As the great theologian Hedley Lamarr once said: “My mind is aglow with whirling, transient nodes of thought careening thru a cosmic vapor of invention.”… Continue reading
